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Leviticus 23

The LORD's appointed feasts: the weekly Sabbath, Passover and Unleavened Bread, the firstfruits, the Feast of Weeks, the blowing of trumpets, the Day of Atonement and the Feast of Tabernacles, when Israel lives in booths for seven days.

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The Feast of Tabernacles is given Booth (sukkah)The Feast of Tabernacles Fruit of goodly trees Branches of palm trees Boughs of thick trees Willows of the brook Booths in the wilderness

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Israelites lived in booths for the seven days of the feast, to remember the Exodus.
Stated directly in the Law.
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The feast ran seven days from the fifteenth day of the seventh month, with a solemn assembly on the eighth day.
Stated directly in the Law.
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Israel was to take the fruit (peri) of 'goodly trees' on the first day of the feast.
Stated in Leviticus 23:40, without naming the tree; the KJV renders peri as 'boughs'.
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Palm branches are one of the four kinds named in the Law.
Stated in Leviticus 23:40.
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Boughs of thick (leafy) trees are one of the four kinds.
Stated in Leviticus 23:40.
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Willows of the brook are one of the four kinds.
Stated in Leviticus 23:40.

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